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 without shoes, Solleysel mentions that those of the German peasantry are not shod; though he asserts it would be much to their adv antage if they were, as the limbs and feet were in nearly every case he saw more or less deformed.

M. Bernard recently confirms this observation, by stating that in Lorraine, Alsace, and Bavaria, he saw very many agricultural horses unshod, and that deformities of the hoofs were common.